Matthew Mcfadyen and Keeley Hawes are married in real life. They both starred in MI-5 (2002) and subsequently married in 2004.
Music:
- The Man with the Child in His Eyes - Kate Bush
- Police on My Back - The Clash
- One Day in Your Life - Michael Jackson
- Fame - David Bowie
- Reunited - Peaches & Herb Fame
- William Tell Overture - Gioachino Rossini
- Dancing in the City - Marshall Hain
The Chief Superintendent (Jeremy Clyde) says he is a friend of "Syd Little". Syd Little was the guitar-playing straight man to Eddie Large who formed the comedy duo Little and Large who were famous in the late 70s and 80s. Syd was tall and skinny with glasses and Eddie was short, fat, and curly haired. Chris (Marshall Lancaster) and Ray (Dean Andrews) stand in front of a poster of them at the TV studio, indicating that they are the Little and Large of Fenchurch East.
Ray (Dean Andrews) says to Alex (Keeley Hawes), "if you were a bloke I'd knock ten bells out of you", referencing the old nautical term for a punch up, "to knock seven bells out of you", which later became "to knock (or kick) seven shades of shit out of you".
At the crime scene, Gene (Philip Glenister) says, "examine some sheep's entrails, see what we can learn from them", referring to the ancient practice used by the Babylonian and Roman civilisations to gain insight into a question or situation by literally examining the intestines of an animal.